”The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (Basca) and the Music Producers Guild (MPG) have joined forces to oppose the proposals to reintroduce the threat of disconnection for persistent file sharers, which was ruled out in the government’s Digital Britain report in June.”

“We vehemently oppose the proposals being made and suggest that the stick is now in danger of being way out of proportion to the carrot. The failure of 30,000 US lawsuits against consumers and the cessation of the pursuit of that policy should be demonstration enough that this is not a policy that any future-minded UK government should pursue.”

In late September I spent two days representing Lund University at a U21 workshop in Edinburgh. We were a mix of 60 or so computer scientists, biologists and social scientists from all over the world, lumped together under the theme “Big Data at the heart of 21st Century research”. Much of my scientific curiosity about […]

LUii’s Stefan Larsson has done an overview on the relevance of digitalisation for the consumer interest, published by the Swedish Consumer Agency last week, as part of their long term strategy focusing the role of digitalisation. Larsson’s study focuses largely on data-mining practices and the management of personal and consumer-related data and problematises these practices […]